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- 2531: Henry Kissinger's Comparison of Realism and Complex Interdependence
- ... regime shift from the increasingly inflexible Concert of Europe, Balance of Power scheme to a more American-dominated regime. The old order, adequate since 1815, became obsolete in an era of rapid mobilization and total war. The rigid alliance system created a "zero-sum game" which made World War I inevitable. Kissinger's analysis leaves several questions unanswered. For instance, how does one measure power? What constitutes power certainly changes over time. For instance, industrial and military capacities, common measures of power in the ... views, it is also important to note that the subjects they are based on are tremendously different. Even Keohane and Nye would not claim that the Oceans or Money issues were as momentous as World War I. While Kissinger examines regime changes in overall structure, Keohane and Nye use narrower issues to develop their theories of complex interdependence. In discussing world war, it is unlikely that they would quibble as ...
- 2532: CIA Covert Operations: Panama and Nicaragua
- ... infrastructure like roads and bridges. They also destroyed port installations and mined harbors. As a result, average individual consumption dropped 61% between 1980 and 1988. On estimate puts the U.S. investment in the Contra war at $1 billion.(Agee, 7) Though the Contras successfully sabotaged the economy and terrorized large sectors of the rural population, they failed to defeat the Sandinista military or even take and hold the smallest town for any length of time. Meanwhile, the U.S. economic blockade cost the economy $3 billion. Another very popular covert action that the CIA is guilty of is that of the propaganda war. From the beginning of the war against Nicaragua, the Reagan-Bush administration faced the problem of overcoming public opposition at home. The solution was to repeat Edward W. Barrett's 1950 domestic propaganda campaign to sell the soviet threat . In ...
- 2533: Released From the Grip of What He Carried: Freedom Birds
- ... memory, letter, or picture can draw anyone from reality. It shows several men's struggle to overcome their predisposed conscience and deal with reality. It has become one of the most common occurrences in any war. Grandfathers, uncles, and even brothers have told how they would recall as they were fighting, they themselves carried the unnecessary on a tour. The seemingly innocent picture, the numerous letters sent, and even thoughts of ... picked up the pebble from where the water and the land meet where it has a "separate but together quality" (278). Cross is not the only man who carries strange objects to deal with the war and the absence of home. One guy in the infantry carries not only his normal gear and necessities is Ted Lavender. He carries "six or seven ounces of premium dope
and tranquilizers" (276). The story depicts Lavender as the type of person who is always taking some form of drug in order to deal with the war. Lavender's fate is met when he "pops off a tranquilizer and goes off to pee" then he "was shot in the head on the way back of the head on his way back ...
- 2534: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... the United States of America and Europe, plus their friends. The story is about how Paul and the other soldiers with him, who are also his closest friends, deal with the many aspects of the war. They do this in the only way that they know how, and they are not always successful. Remarque deals with the characters' fears and thoughts by mixing them together into the story. You form a ... has done. He cannot imagine living a life without something to do and the almost constant threat of the shellings and killing. His life, and those of his friends, has been ruined forever by this war, and he does not know how to deal with what he is presented. This book does have faults, though. The violence is often and almost excessively gory, such as the scenes where a soldier gets his head shot off by a shell and he continues to run, blood spilling over everyone. I understand that Remarque wants to get across the injustices of the war, but I still found myself disgusted and repulsed - not against the author, but more with the fact that our race can even do theses things to each other, and that we are willing to ...
- 2535: Pakistan
- ... Kashmir has lead to many lives being lost. There have been rocket attacks on Pakistan. Homes of the Pakistani have been left in ruins. During the summer of 1999, India and Pakistan fought a border war in Kashmir. Two out of the three wars that Pakistan has been in have been over Kashmir. The conflict has made the tension between Muslims and Hindus much worse. The people of Pakistan have called for a "holy war". The main way that India and Pakistan are going to be able to change things in Kashmir is to start peace talks. One can only hope that in the near future there will be peace ... India started nuclear testing, Pakistan seemed to set the nuclear missiles just as fast. These two countries are third world countries with nuclear weapons. The citizens of Pakistan are in constant fear of a nuclear war. There is another major problem. The Pakistani have no safe way to control the nuclear weapons. If these two countries have a nuclear war it could affect the world, both India and Pakistan would ...
- 2536: Sluaghterhouse-Five
- ... ends up displayed in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore making love to Earth porno-star, Montana Wildhack. He ends up in the cellar of a slaughterhouse when Dresden is bombed to ashes during World War II; Billy, his fellow Americans, and four guards were the only ones to live through the bombing. The Boston Globe best explains the book when it says it is "
poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement" (back cover). Vonnegut looks into the human mind of a man, traumatized by war experiences and poor relations with his father, and determines insanity is the result. Billys father is a source of his instability from the beginning. Mr. Pilgrim treats Billy as if he has no feelings ... coincidentally, have many similarities with the "alien" encounter and the "time traveling" Billy often experiences. The encounters are barricades Billy puts around himself so he does not have to face the reality of death and war. They are a way of shielding him so he can pretend everything is all right and there really is no death. Many times throughout the book, Vonnegut indicates that the "encounters" are merely figments ...
- 2537: Dante
- ... throughout human history: Were you to reassemble all the men who once, within Apulia1's fateful land, had mourned their blood, shed at the Trojans' hands, as well as those who fell in the long war where massive mounds of rings were battle spoils even as Livy write, who does not err and those who felt the thrust of painful blows when they fought hard against Robert Guiscard; with all the ... were one to show his limb pierced through and one his limb hacked off, that would not match the hideousness of the ninth abyss. (Lines 7-21) Dante gives historical examples of the destruction of war. This is in contrast to the heroic qualities of war which Dante's predecessors most often focus on. Dante is acting less as a poet and more as an historian. He takes the reader on a mini journey through these wars. His first stop ...
- 2538: Snow Falling On Cedars
- ... San Piedro. It is responsible for the internment of Kabuo, Hatsue, and their families, the breakup of Hatsue and Ishmael, Kabuo's loss of his land, and perhaps for his indictment for murder. Before the war years, Kabuo's father, Zenhichi made an illegal agreement with the victim's father, Carl Heine senior. It was an agreement to an eight-year "lease-to-own" contract. Money changed hands, land was promised and terms were set. Unfortunately, the war came and the Japanese Americans were sent away to internment camp. Nothing was quite the same at wars end. When the Miyamoto has returned to claim their land, they had found out that the victim ... suspected it that easily. Racism has put an end to the relationship of Hatsue and Ishmael. Being born in that period of time was a tragic for those lovers. It was the time when World War II just breakout, tension between the Americans and the Japanese had grown stronger, because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. U.S had declared war on Japan. The war changed everything, the life of ...
- 2539: Airships
- ... 1,050-hp Daimler Benz diesel engines. It could carry loads of 30 tons over transoceanic distances. It was scrapped in May 1940. A total of 119 Zeppelins were built, most of them during World War I, when 103 airships were delivered to the military. The most famous Zeppelin was the original GRAF ZEPPELIN, which during 1928-37 made flights to the United States, the Arctic, the Middle East, and South ... Another famous Zeppelin was the airliner hindenburg, which was destroyed by fire at Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937. The British made intermittent efforts to develop the rigid airship; they built eight during World War I and six shortly thereafter. The most noteworthy was the R-34, which in July 1919 made the first transatlantic round-trip flight. An effort to develop two airships of 5,000,000 cu ft ... of the century the Brazilian aeronaut Alberto Dumont built and flew a series of small airships in France, all of which used gasoline engines. Blimps were effectively used by the British and French in World War I in maritime reconnaissance against German submarines. The term blimp, a British slang expression of unknown origin, came into use about this time. In World War II, the United States was the only power ...
- 2540: Info On Ww1
- On the 28th July 1918 the great powers of Europe went to war in one of the most tragic and bloody events in all of history. The main wars on the western front were between Britain, the ruler of the worlds' largest empire covering over a quarter of the full land mass, and a new country called Germany. The reason that Britain was in the war was because it was upholding some treaties it had made some years before such as the treaty of London which said that Britain would protect Belgium if she was ever invaded, which was the first ... top of No Mans Land and nearly every single one was shot down and died. This type of warfare had never ever been seen by the army and some people claimed that it wasn't war of strength it was a war of attrition, that is that the winner would be the person with more people and supplies. In between the trenches was an area called No Mans Land, this ...
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